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Quotes About Time

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame
~ Virginia Woolf
A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.
~ Voltaire
I don't have time to read nonfiction.
~ W. P. Kinsella
Time is a horse that runs in the heart, a horse Without a rider on a road at night. The mind sits listening and hears it pass.
~ Wallace Stevens
Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.
~ Walt Whitman
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
We cannot defer this responsibility to posterity. Time will not wait.
~ Walter Cronkite
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.
~ Walter J. Phillips
Time rolls his ceaseless course.
~ Walter Scott
We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
~ Warren Buffett
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
~ Washington Irving
Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
~ Wellington Mara
We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.
~ Will Rogers
The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time.
~ Willem de Kooning
Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.
~ William Arthur Ward
Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.
~ William Benton Clulow
Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
~ William Butler Yeats
How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!
~ William Cowper
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
~ William Faulkner
Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?
~ William Habington
We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted.
~ William Henry Ashley
Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world. And the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
~ William J. Clinton
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.
~ William J. Clinton
When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.
~ William J. H. Boetcker